Daily Devotion for 24 April 2024 (Easter 4, Wednesday)
Readings
- Psalm 19
- Psalm 50
- Leviticus 16:1–24
- Luke 10:1–22
- Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, VIII, 16–22
Commemoration
Today we commemorate Johann Walter, Kantor. Having begun his service — as a composer and bass singer — in the court of Frederick the Wise at the age of twenty-one, Johann Walter would go on to publish a collection of hymns that would become the basis of many subsequent hymnals. Walter would serve for a total of thirty years as kantor in the cities of Torgau and Dresden. Additionally, he aided Martin Luther in the preparation of the German Mass.